42 Theeapt. 



2. Cuorin reaction. 



Experiments on precipitation reaction against 

 the patient's serum by means of Teruuchi's 

 E.R. lecithin. 



3. Experiments on haemolysis using extracts of the 

 patient's organs. 



4. Experiments on precipitation reaction using ex- 

 tracts of the patient's organs against the immune serum. 



It should especially be noticed that all the above 

 tests were tried, without yielding anything towards the 

 establishment of the diagnosis; for their results were 

 about the same as those of the control performed with 

 the serum and organs of normal horses. In short, all 

 our efforts towards the discovery of a method of diag- 

 nosing at the very beginning of the disease turned out 

 to be a failure. 



IX. THERAPY. 



In the first place, we made a series of experiments 

 with a number of medicines that might possibly destroy 

 the virus. However, none of them being found to be of 

 any promise, we were obliged to be content, for the time 

 being, with the hope of increasing the resistance of the 

 patient against the disease. We experimented with all the 

 available forms of therapeutics taking the specific nature 

 of the disease into consideration, that is, infectiousness, 

 severe anemia, recurrence of high fever and the slow 

 and prolonged course of the disease itself. The results 

 were all unsatisfactory. However the following may be 

 mentioned for future reference. 



a) Peru-balsam. — 10 gr. of Peru-balsam per day was 

 continuously administered for more than a month with 



